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作者：Ambrose Bierce [全部名言]

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“OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.”

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“ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.”

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“ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.”

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“OTHERWISE, adv. No better.”

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“OUTDO, v.t. To make an enemy.”

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“OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.”

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“PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.”

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“PANTHEISM, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.”

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“PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.”

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“PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.”

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“PASSPORT, n. A document treacherously inflicted upon a citizen going abroad, exposing him as an alien and pointing him out for special reprobation and outrage.”

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“PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.”

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“PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.”

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“PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.”

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“PEDESTRIAN, n. The variable (an audible) part of the roadway for an automobile.”

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“PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.”

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“PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.”

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“PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.”

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“PHILANTHROPIST, n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.”

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“PHILOSOPHY, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.”

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